PROJECTS

GLOBAL GOALS TWITTER FEEDS

The Peace Informatics Lab supported Global Pulse and the Millennium Campaign to develop an interactive visualisation which showed how much people tweet about the same topics. Our team worked on a new algorithm to determine the gender of more than 350 million twitter users.

REFUGEE FUTURES INITIATIVE

Why do we need data-driven innovation for refugees?This initiative is a pan-European effort that combines policy and data science expertise, driven by the wish to develop new tools that can help those engaged in refugee policy-making and related support initiatives.

FUTUREBASE

The FutureBase project aims to develop new data analytics software for assisting strategic security policy-making. The software will be able to collect, cluster and interpret global (text-based) data sources and help assess policy options for national security.

DATAPOOL

INCLUSIVE CITIES

Peace and Security is increasingly becoming an urban issue. More than 50% of the world population already lives in cities and this figure is set to rise significantly in the coming decades. As part of the BOLD Cities project, the Peace Informatics Lab in collaboration with the Leiden Center of Data Science helps to apply new data analytics methodologies to creating more inclusive cities.

PEACE DEALS REVISITED

Peace deals are major milestones in societal change from war to peace. However, current research in peace studies points to different conclusions regarding what works best. Peace Deals Revisited aims to use Big Data to improve peacemaking and the theoretical understanding thereof.

POLITICAL ATTENTION RADAR CLASSIFIER (PARC)

Political priorities often determine whether and if so how conflicts can turn out peacefully. With a 24/7 media landscape and a continuous growth of policy documentation it is increasingly difficult to generate meaningful overviews of major trends in politics.

IMPACT TRACKER

Do you know whether you reach your targets – when you launch an advocacy campaign? Impact Tracker helps to monitor, visualise and measure the impact of your social media use. Check out our beta version and let us know what you think.

DATA FOR POLICY conference

How can data be leveraged for sustainable development? This paper aims to help understanding the current state-of-art on data-driven innovation, and how Non-Governmental Organisations [NGOs] in the field of sustainable development can learn from it. Based on the preliminary analysis of 187 scientific articles on data-driven innovation, and scoping interviews we provide a view on (1) the definition of data-driven innovation, (2) challenges of NGOs in implementing data-driven innovation, and (3) across which sectors NGOs could find potentially valuable examples for further implementation.